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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 2h

It used to be on Netflix but I don't think it is anymore!

deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was reading my kids Zlateh the Goat and, boy, was I working overtime to think of an alternate ending if something happened to that goat.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Call for proposals for a workshop, my people! Slavery and transimperial trade next March at William & Mary. Please spread it far and wide: I want to read your many great proposals!

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2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges Workshop

Atlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […]

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Getting ready for bulb planting season! Got some tulips, crocuses, mini irises, and hyacinths on the way. (Also a new, completely life changing action hoe.).

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If only I could go back in time. Truly a fantastic opportunity.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The schedule and registration for the New Netherland Institute's Annual Conference on November 7-8, 2026 are now live! Check out the panels here: newnetherlandinstitute.org/education/ne.... I know I say it every year, but this is going to be a great one!

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh my god! I'm so excited! And thank you for sharing with us/

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you aren't on the list and would like to be, drop me a note!

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The schedule for the 2026-2027 NNI's Scholars Seminar is live at newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/nni... Our first meeting will be Wednesday, 9/16; Giovanna Montenegro (Binghamton) will present "Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Contributions to European Naturalists’ New World Ecology."

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NNI Scholar's Seminar

NNI Scholars’ Seminar The New Netherland Institute hosts a Zoom seminar where academics, public historians, and graduate students meet to discuss a piece of chapter-...

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Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

*VACANCIES* Two very cool PhDs positions at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social on the Transimperial History of Women’s Work (1600-1900) within Natália da Silva Perez's project. 👇 www.eur.nl/en/working-a...

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PhD Candidate on the Transimperial History of Women’s Work (1600-1900)

Join the NWO Vidi project “That’s Women’s Work!” on the trans-imperial history of gendered labour: apply for one of two funded PhD positions

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hope to be there! (This one is virtual right?)

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Is something going on at the Nationaal Archief? Or is it my computer? I can't find a way to open the scans from the OWIC (1.05.01.01) archive - I just get the option to request them in the studie zaal or ask for them to be digitized. @jcvl.bsky.social?

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Giving this cfp a boost: please consider submitting something. Our Forum feature is a great home for shorter pieces. #earlymodern

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

As is my annual tradition in August, I am emailing Dutch people to ask them things and finding out that they are all on vacation and cursing American work culture.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thought I owned a cat, but I guess I got whatever this is

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you don't know about the "worst aquarium ever," (especially if you're a maritime historian) this is well worth the read: www.boston.com/news/local-n...

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‘Worst Aquarium Ever’

The New Bedford Whaling Museum turned a bad Google review into “marketing gold.”

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I have one last slot for the 2026-2027 NNI Scholars Seminar - it's in October. Any historians, art historians, literature folks, etc., have anything Dutch Atlantic that they want feedback on?

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The timing might not match up, but I would guess that Peter Lilly would be Peter Lely (1618-1680) who was a major court portrait painter?

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I had a delightful time reading the Duyckinck papers under the watchful eyes of the Half Moon Window at New York Historical. And a very summer letter from Johanna Duyckinck to her sister begging her to get to New York faster for a visit!

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

must seize self-promotion chance but, that aside, this includes excellent work inter alia from @carrington-farmer.bsky.social susanne lachenicht anne-claire foucquez @eheijmans.bsky.social and the late Trevor Burnard w/Agnes Delahaye #earlymodern #empire

cover of Elodie Peyrol et al (eds) _Agents of European Overseas Empires_ available in paper for 50% off till 9 July

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Ooh, hadn't heard of this. Got to add it to the reading list!

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

several pages later, an added jibe (3rd if not more of the article)

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

From Alice Kenney's “Neglected Heritage: Hudson River Valley Dutch Material Culture,” in the Winterthur Portfolio (1985). She died the same year the article came out, but I feel that I can almost hear her sighing or maybe screaming into the void.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I mean, yes. But also I wouldn't mind owning a vintage scarf that needed an archival box :)

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

this is awesome! I love that they have boxes for everything. (scarves! baseballs!) (though all I have are papers...)

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Archivists, how do you store your papers at home? I'm looking for some of archives box or folder that I could use to store my kids artwork, etc.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

This is the first batch, more coming soon!

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

NNI got a big used book donation (New Netherland, Revolutionary War). If you're in the United States, and want any (used so may have underlining/highlighting), message me; we'll mail it to you. Asking for a $5 donation to NNI to cover shipping. (Sorry non-US folks, can't afford shipping to you.)

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It's such a problem across the board! I often can't find homes for 17th century Dutch Bibles with handwritten genealogical material...

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

So important. All the libraries and archives I know turn away material because of lack of ability to catalog or lack of storage space.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If only I had realized you could ask your parents for a peacock...(and her father was a minster in the Dutch Reformed Church, too!) Gerardus Duyckinck I, Wilhelmina Ritzema (ca. 1743–1813), From the Collection of the New York Historical.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If you know a Masters student who would like to go on to the PhD and knows Dutch, there's a Phd position open in Alisa van de Haar's exciting "Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power: Linguistic Politics in Early Colonial North America" project at Leiden: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-P...

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PhD Position on early colonial North America

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Congratulations and well deserved!!! What wonderful news for a Friday morning.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm looking for an expert in 17th century *Swedish* to read a document (only a half page) and confirm that it is, in fact, Swedish. Are any of you that person?

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Does anyone here have a personal website that uses Wordpress? And if so, do you find it easy to run?

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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hey global early modernists, the Forum on Early-modern Empires and Global Interactions has joined Bluesky! This lively community of scholars comes together for biennial conferences & awards book & article prizes. Follow @feegiconference.bsky.social & check out feegi.org/index.html. #earlymodern

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FEEGI

The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks.

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